"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years."
"For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant?"
3 likes
Source: Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith, (pp. 25-26), 1994.
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Lillian Smith
"Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve."
"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."
"Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation."
"The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making."
"The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality."